I wonder if the "Ceterone" listing on BFH and Biber/La
Battaglia came from Luca or the record labels?  Is it
possible that the labels (Winter & Winter and Teldec),
need to update their typesetting dictionaries?  Or
have we got a case where the copy editors had a
Western Musicological bias and assumed that a cetra
and ceterone were one in the same (i.e. cetra being
misunderstood as cetera)?

In his correspondence to me, Luca specifically called
his instrument a "cetra," and didn't link it directly
to the ceterone.  Curious minds..... 

Take Care,

Ron Banks

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> In einer eMail vom 05.12.2006 17:51:38
> Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 
> 
> > Lute tuning on 6-courses wire-strung certainly has
> history.
> > I'll let others comment on the other tuning --
> even though he needn't be
> > bound by any common stock tunings.
> 
> Yes, it is called an orpharion not a ceterone.
> He can do exactly what he pleases and I do certainly
> not see anything bad 
> about folk instruments.
> 
> The question was, was it a ceterone, the answer
> remains, no it is not.
> 
> best wishes
> Mark
> 



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